SIGMANUNKI

For those of you who don't know, Coupling is a UK sitcom. Absolutely hi-larious. Highly recommended. Ok, if you guys don't want a spoiler, stop reading now. You have been warned. We have just started watching series 4 of it and... and... Jeff is gone! He was the kinda weird, kinda dumb, kinda... Well, you know the character. Except, the actor who played him, and the writters/director/etc executed the character flawlessly. Absolutely brilliant. Now Jeff is gone and has been replaced by some idiot that you just want to slap (character [i]and[/i] the actor for his "acting"). It's still pretty funny, but for those that haven't gotten there yet, series 4 goes in a fairly different direction than the prior series'. You can see it from the last ep in series 3. So, you can decide whether you want to stop there. Not that I'd recommend stopping there. All things being equal though, I [i]would[/i] recommend continuing. Just ignore Oliver. Oh god, should you ever ignore Oliver. Only a few eps left and then that's it. Oh will I savour what I have left. Such a good series. :smile:

JACQUI

Anthony got himself a box of NFL cards. A: Look! I got a Javon Walker jersey card! Me: Hm. How nice. A: No, LOOK! Me: Oh, it's kinda shiny. Hey, it's like a pieceworks card, yeah? A: It's *not* like a pieceworks card. It's a jersey card. Me: Does it have piece of a costume on it? A: It's not a costume, it's a JERSEY! Me: Is it clothing? A: Yes. Me: It's like a pieceworks card. A: It's NOT A FREAKIN' PIECEWORKS CARD!!! Me: Looks like one to me.

REALLYKAYLEE

okay . . . my brother. we just finished watching safe cause we don't have school today (every year is an election year here in VA!) and i was like "hahaha! i think "it was the best day ever" part is my favorite part in the episode" "i like the dancing" *awkward silence* my brother is thirteen (soon fourteen and obsessed with being a man and stuff. this blew me away! yeah! now he is sensitive and i love it! i am going to go shove some austen adaptations down his throat now! note! if you have a myspace please go to www.myspace.com/smithforpres and befriend! i need more friends for my gov't project!

CUB

Sucks that I got on board the whole Firefly thing so late. I missed the first airing (and all the pain), I missed the DVD release, I missed the announcement of the movie (I'm sure there was much rejoicing). I almost missed the movie itself because by the time I became a fan it was on its final few days in the theater here. Which brings me to my point: I'm really coming to hate the movie. Was it a bad movie? No, it was great! But I think it was a bad idea. It took an entire season worth of television, condensed it to 90 minutes, and stripped away most of the elements that made the TV series so unique and charming. It ended up as a very entertaining little sci-fi flick with no obvious hook and no stars. The box office was what you'd expect to such a film - lukewarm. Meanwhile the Firefly DVD set continues to fly off shelves at a crazy rate. Amazon recently jacked up the price, and the set's still in their top 10 best-sellers among all DVDs - at $40 a pop, and after all of this time. How many have been sold? Millions? Plus the ratings for the repeats on Sci-Fi continue to be strong. But all of that momentum has been killed by the movie and seems to mean nothing now. No one in Hollywood is paying attention anymore, and no one cares. The franchise has been branded a two-time failure and a dud because of the movie, no matter how much everyone loves the TV series. That's the frustrating thing. The series is absolute gold. I have friends who saw the movie and enjoyed it on a visceral popcorn-flick level, then watched the series and were blown away and became as obsessed as me. Recapping: -First Fox killed the series by presenting it the way they did. -Fans of the show and those who were just curious snapped up the DVDs (and are still buying them like crazy), bringing everything back to life -Then the movie killed the franchise again I can't help but feel like if everyone involved had just waited a little while, the series would have been back on television for a long run - and would have been welcomed with open arms by all of the fans who own the DVD sets. The franchise just doesn't lend itself to the movie format. This is a tale that only retains that "something special" when it's in serial form. Instead we get a fun little movie, and we're back to square one, with the franchise taking the blame instead of the format. The most frustrating thing is to see people hoping for a sequel. "Better than nothing." No it's not because "nothing" eventually builds to something bigger and better. "Nothing" turns into more momentum and objective analysis by someone who matters about what people actually [b]want[/b] instead of counting numbers and throwing out scraps. That's why I'm learning to hate "Serenity." And that's why I pray there's never a sequel. Unless it's after a 10-year TV run. :biggrin:

EIRE

Ok, this cold is going to drive me nuts, I REALLY want to go buy the book about the making of Serenity but it would also be very nice if I could pass all my classes (with A's would be wonderful...but highly unlikely, particularly with my social psych class at the university), and it's getting dangerously close to the end of the semester. Why can't I be an instant genius like River? (don't tell me cuz she's a fictional character or I'll buy two books just so I can shove one down yer throat...)

SWAHILI

Why Wash? okay this entry is a little belated but I havn't really thought much about Serenity, except for how long till it came out on Dvd. Any way WHY WASH. I get Shepord Booke but not Wash, Alan Tudyk is awsome. If Joss does a second movie or continues the show some how he has got to find a way to incorperate Wash. Killing Wash is almost as bad as killing Spike at the end of Buffy...Except Spike came back, and he didn't have a large speary pole thing patruding through his chest.